Kameron Hurley Quotes

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

I love a really good storyline.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

I've just finished a book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife', which I really enjoyed, but that's quite old, but I have read it. I've read it, and I enjoyed that.

The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.